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At SMCS, the combined emphasis upon academic excellence and spiritual training, taught in an intimate, hands-on, stimulating classroom environment that inspires a love of learning, creates an outstanding elementary school experience.
Qualified, experienced teachers who care for and pray for each student model joyful faith as they address the spiritual, academic and personal development of each child. Thus, our motto: "Educating for Life.".
The elementary school years are the most important in a child's
intellectual and spiritual development. It is universally
understood that children who, in elementary school, receive a solid
foundation in reading, writing, math, science and history are
equipped to excel during the remainder of their academic careers.
What is often overlooked is that, during these same years, each
child is learning and internalizing the values and beliefs that
will shape and determine in large part his or her faith and
character in adulthood.
SMCS exists to assist Christian parents in educating their
children to better understand God`s Word and His world. It is our
goal to partner with parents to lead their children to faith in
Jesus Christ, and help them to acquire a Christian world and life
view, develop Christian character, and become equipped and
motivated to impact the world for Christ.
SMCS provides a broad, stimulating education that inspires a
lifelong love of learning. Whenever practical, our teachers use
techniques pioneered by Charlotte Mason. These techniques enable
students to bring all their mental faculties into play: to identify
important information, to think critically, to make value judgments
about the ideas and relationships introduced, to express
themselves, and to learn the vocabulary of good writers. The
atmosphere in each class is conductive to learning: an intimate
setting incorporating nature, classical music, art and scents.
Through the great writings of men and women who love their
subjects, and using the original texts, SMCS students are
introduced to important ideas and inspirational relationships such
as love, service, authority, obedience, reverence and neighborly
kindness; relationships with family, friends and neighbors, cause
and country, the past and the present. Charlotte Mason techniques
are complimented by traditional, proven curriculum including
phonics based reading, Saxon Math, and rich science and history
texts. In addition to Bible classes and scripture memory, Christian
thought is integrated into every subject as appropriate. God is the
Lord of history, math, science, social studies, fine arts, and all
other areas of human scholarship and inquiry. Our daily curriculum
is filled with the wonder of discovering God's infinite wisdom,
power and love in every area of human activity. It is an outworking
of a Christian world and life view that recognizes the divine
presence in the intricacies of a single snowflake, or the sonatas
of Mozart; in the order of the solar system, or the brush strokes
of Rembrandt.
The school functions as an extension of the home, making
parents true partners in their child's education. Qualified,
experienced teachers-who know each student's heart as well as his
or her academic strengths and weaknesses-pray for each student and
model joyful faith as they give individual attention to the
spiritual, academic, physical and personal development of each
child, and reinforce the mutual values of the parents and the
school. Parents have abundant opportunities to assist in the
classrooms by reading to the class or with individual students,
helping in the library, making presentations in areas of parental
expertise that enrich the curriculum, and accompanying school
trips. Parents have frequent opportunities to meet with the
teachers, including scheduled events like quarterly progress
meetings and monthly Parent-Teacher-Board meetings at which parents
are updated as to what is going on in the school, and pray for
specific needs of the students, their families and each other. The
result is a supportive community atmosphere and an outstanding
elementary school experience for parents and students alike.
SMCS uses the Terra Nova to measure academic progress in the
3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Using a national achievement test allows
us to measure our students' progress against students from all
states, not just Tennessee, in both public and private schools.
Generally, SMCS students perform in the above-average range, well
above the national average, and exceed the national average by a
greater and greater margin with each year of education. By 5th
grade, they are often 4-7 years ahead with many testing post-high
school.
SMCS students have a very high acceptance rate at private prep
schools and Christian middle schools. The feedback we have received
from principals, admissions directors, and parents is that our
students have good character, have an excellent academic
foundation, and are very well-prepared to succeed academically at
those institutions.
If you would like to know more about SMCS, we invite you to
visit our website at smcstn.org or call the school office at
423-886-1115.
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